Edie Brickell Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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I'm pagan.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
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Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
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A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.
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Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.